A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Tobias Schliesller
Tobias Schliessler
Tobias Schliessller
Birthplace:
Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Born:
November 5, 1958
Tobias A. Schliessler (born 5 November 1958) is a German cinematographer. Schliessler was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, to documentary filmmaker and artist Martin Schliessler (1929–2008) and editor Anemone Schliessler (née Heim). His brother, Jochen, is a documentary filmmaker, and his sister, Tina, is a film producer, photographer, and painter. Schiessler grew up in Baden-Baden. In 1979, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he later studied film at Simon Fraser University. After graduating as a cinematographer, he started to work on documentary films and advertisement spots. In the late 1980s, he began to work for Canadian television productions. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on the production of movies like Dreamgirls, Hancock and Battleship. He often works with the directors Bill Condon and Peter Berg. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tobias A. Schliessler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Additional Photography:
1997 Bliss
Cinematography:
1992 South of Wawa
1997 Bliss
Director of Photography:
1989 Quarantine
1989 The Top of His Head
1991 Chaindance
1991 Writer's Block
1992 Sexual Advances
1992 South of Wawa
1993 Just One of the Girls
1994 Double Cross
1994 Green Dolphin Beat
1994 Killer
1994 Sin and Redemption
1995 Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995 The Omen
1997 Bliss
1997 Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997 Mandela and de Klerk
1997 Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
1998 Hoods
1998 Legalese
1998 Outrage
1998 The Long Way Home
2000 Bait
2000 The Guilty
2003 The Rundown
2004 Friday Night Lights
2006 Dreamgirls
2008 Hancock
2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2012 Battleship
2013 Lone Survivor
2013 The Fifth Estate
2015 Mr. Holmes
2016 Patriots Day
2017 Beauty and the Beast
2018 A Wrinkle in Time
2018 The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical
2019 The Good Liar
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020 Refugee
2020 Spenser Confidential
2021 Come from Away
2021 Palmer
2022 The Adam Project
2023 Rustin
2025 Kiss of the Spider Woman
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1989 Quarantine
1989 The Top of His Head
1991 Chaindance
1991 Writer's Block
1992 Sexual Advances
1992 South of Wawa
1993 Just One of the Girls
1994 Double Cross
1994 Green Dolphin Beat
1994 Killer
1994 Sin and Redemption
1995 Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995 The Omen
1997 Bliss
1997 Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997 Mandela and de Klerk
1997 Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
1998 Hoods
1998 Legalese
1998 Outrage
1998 The Long Way Home
2000 Bait
2000 The Guilty
2003 The Rundown
2004 Friday Night Lights
2006 Dreamgirls
2008 Hancock
2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2012 Battleship
2013 Lone Survivor
2013 The Fifth Estate
2015 Mr. Holmes
2016 Patriots Day
2017 Beauty and the Beast
2018 A Wrinkle in Time
2018 The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical
2019 The Good Liar
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020 Refugee
2020 Spenser Confidential
2021 Come from Away
2021 Palmer
2021 There's Someone Inside Your House
2022 The Adam Project
2023 Rustin
2025 Kiss of the Spider Woman
Cinematography:
2023 All the Light We Cannot See
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